Chinese Kids Taught Plagiarism at School, Saber Style
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 5, 2012 00:02 JST
- Tags: China, Comparison, Fate/stay night, Fate/Zero, Made in China, Plagiarism, Saber, Teachers
Chinese children look to have been getting an early education in their nation’s uniquely advanced understanding of copyright – media have been feting a schoolboy novelist, but it did not take long before someone noticed where he had filched his cover art from…
The book was in question was reportedly written by an elementary schooler, with some of the proceeds going to charity, but more attention has focused on the similarities the cover bears to official Fate/Zero art than the precocious munificence of the author:
The contents apparently have nothing to do with Fate, and there is no indication as to whether the appropriation was the work of this highly promising young author himself or the adults who presumably at least helped him organise its printing.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the cover was the work of the publisher. I don't think an author (even a child) would attach some random image to *his* story that has nothing to do with it. Unless it's fan fiction, but that is not the case here.
It usually is the publisher who decides the covers on books.
"hey, kid ! i'll deny your work and make an half-assed job on it". Twice the shame on publisher
At first I thought it was "new" manga that was chopped up from the original. But this ain't that bad.
Show children how editors translate manga, accused for plagiarism by fat white asses who wished they were born yellow. :misunderstoodchinese:
@19:28
Wow, someone sure fell out of the racist tree and hit every branch on the way down..
The title of the novel is, of course, "Fake/Steal Right".
What can I say... TRACE ON!
LOL, I see what you did there anon. :)
It finally came in handy for a joke.
I don't think this counts as tracing though, as they don't appear to have even bothered to trace the image. It looks like they just copied and pasted wings onto the original. The wings were almost certainly cropped out of some other image. :P I don't think much more than 10 minutes was spent on it.
Just enjoy the joke...
Well played, Anon, well played.
Publishers do this with low-budget childbooks (at least those that don't actually sell anywhere outside the town it was printed) all the time. This has nothing to do with the kid who wrote the story (and I applaud him for the effort) or education in general. Very shitty and misleading title.
Are you retarded? Copyright is copyright? I don't care how much effort he put into writing the book. And how dare he cover up Rider's face!
Wasn't the authors fault, it was the publisher.
Yes, he did put effort into writing the book, and no, he's not the one who photoshopped the image. Or do all Chinese look the same to rednecks who wish they were asian?
Cool story bro, still a copyright infringement no matter how you try to be an apologist about it.
Of course the cover's copyright infringement. Just that the kids have nothing to do with it. Or is screaming "china plagiarism china sucks" at everything still the cool thing to do? Grow up.
99% of internet hipsters who whine in front of their screens about these things never actually bother to dedicate any real effort into understanding, or make any constructive effort whatsoever towards the situation, and simply bitch along with the band.
Truth also.
It's not a cool thing to do but it's the truth
Learn to read, he is saying it has nothing to do with the misleading title "chinese kids taught plagiarism in school". They aren't being taught anything about it here. (In fact they almost never are taught anything about it, which is the main problem)
"There's no rule that an imitation can't surpass the original" ~Emiya.
In this case however...
I wouldn't be the least surprised if people buy his book only because what's on the cover...
so what else is new...?
Now she can fly i guess.
ACTA died today.
If this is the price, I'll take it.
In Europe. Americans are still going to have to bend over to their corporate masters.
In other words, it's business as usual.
You two appear to be having a battle of wits but you both appear to be unarmed.
nah, from what I read on Sankaku we are fat, gun toting, barbarians, so no one tells us what to do, you smelly Europeans, take a bath, but give us your hairy armpit women first....hmm lets see...what else do they say about them? im a little behind in the stereotype department.
It explodes.
how come nothing blew up?!
Because that joke was way past it's expiration date.
is it me or is china only known for copyrighting and explosions?
Guess Sanakaku is the only place you get news of the sensationalist kind eh?
You surf too much Sankaku Complex
this is honestly hilarious. I think the kid wrote his story and someone else handled the cover and was all "NO ONE WILL NOTICE RIGHT?"
There must have been a character similar to Saber in the book - or at least a 'noble female', but I wonder if the other characters that appear on the cover have parallels in the book too. Otherwise not even bothering to erase them is just lazy.
More naive think that is educational only.
Clearly they teaching the new generations to take advantage of ideas of others. The china takes literally the phrase: nothing is created in the world everything is copied :P
Pity that perfection is only in copy of the idea and not the quality of the material.
Translation please?
that means... chin ching chong nese??
Says the fags who brawl over how horrible it is that America took down megaupload and other sites. Hypocrisy eh? Internet-raised fags like you don't like it when the tables are turned?
Since when have tables ever turned for america?
I'm not even sure if that was a comment for or against America, it was full of retardation and failrage. Please try to make more sense next time, @04:13.
...By now no one expects a Sankaku article title to be the complete truth, but this is seriously a new low. That headline is so far past misleading it's completely made up.
China has no shame, nuff said.
The books will explode.
i wouldnt be supprise if it actually explode... i'd be more supprise if the kid wrote a original story :D
Hmm... imagine those children actually reading Fate/ Zero. :D
Don't blame the kid. He probably had nothing to do with the choice of cover art. If what he wrote was original, that's all that matters. The printer and/or publisher was the thief.
"But it's original art! See? We added wings!"
The wings are only here to hide the other Servants's faces, the title hide the Masters... Well done China!